We Pick the Year's 5 Most Intriguing Documentaries

Most documentaries go back and piece together history after the fact. Citizenfour chronicles history as it happened. Director Laura Poitras was one of the handful of people NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contacted to help him reveal the information he wanted the public to know, so she was there filming as the leaks happened.

The worst part about this movie is that after you finish watching it, you’ll be so angry we never got to see Alejandro Jodorowsky’s vision of Dune come to life. Watch it and you won't get FOMO, just some hardcore SFPWMOOT: So Fracking Pissed We Missed Out On This.

Particle Fever was one of the most heartwarming films of 2014. Which is strange, given its subject matter. It’s a documentary focused on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and the two enormous research teams competing to be the first to find the Higgs boson (known as the "God Particle," to the subjects’ annoyance) and, hopefully, answer some fundamental questions about the universe.

Everyone loves George Takei and having a glimpse into his life as a gay rights activist and comics convention omni-presence in To Be Takei is just awesome. Seriously, tune in for the reminiscing about the Star Trek days and stay for the moments Takei spends at home with his husband, Brad.

When Aaron Swartz committed suicide in 2013 it was a huge loss for the internet activist community, and the world. Director Brian Knappenberger's documentary The Internet's Own Boy gets at the heart of just how big that loss is.

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We Pick the Year's 5 Most Intriguing Documentaries

Most documentaries go back and piece together history after the fact. Citizenfour chronicles history as it happened. Director Laura Poitras was one of the handful of people NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contacted to help him reveal the information he wanted the public to know, so she was there filming as the leaks happened.

The worst part about this movie is that after you finish watching it, you’ll be so angry we never got to see Alejandro Jodorowsky’s vision of Dune come to life. Watch it and you won't get FOMO, just some hardcore SFPWMOOT: So Fracking Pissed We Missed Out On This.

Particle Fever was one of the most heartwarming films of 2014. Which is strange, given its subject matter. It’s a documentary focused on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and the two enormous research teams competing to be the first to find the Higgs boson (known as the "God Particle," to the subjects’ annoyance) and, hopefully, answer some fundamental questions about the universe.

Everyone loves George Takei and having a glimpse into his life as a gay rights activist and comics convention omni-presence in To Be Takei is just awesome. Seriously, tune in for the reminiscing about the Star Trek days and stay for the moments Takei spends at home with his husband, Brad.

When Aaron Swartz committed suicide in 2013 it was a huge loss for the internet activist community, and the world. Director Brian Knappenberger's documentary The Internet's Own Boy gets at the heart of just how big that loss is.

If you care about technology and movies, which is to say if you're a reader of this here website, then you were probably pretty excited about Citizenfour. That documentary pulled the curtain back on what happened with whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leak in a big way. But that was just one of a few great documentaries that hit theaters this year. There were also docs on the life of Aaron Swartz, director Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to adapt Dune, and the quest to find the "God Particle." Here are a few of our personal favorite docs of the last year.